TALK about one extreme to the other! This match-made-in-heaven is straight from the cradle to the grave -- with the bride a midwife and her new husband an undertaker.

But according to groom Neal Buckley, the pair couldn't be better suited, despite their 'before and after life' jobs!

Now, after a wedding at St Andrew's CofE Church, Longton, on Saturday, September 22, the happy couple have set up home in a flat above the funeral parlour!

Neal, 33, who owns Longton, Hutton and Penwortham funeral directors, Skip Lane, Hutton, said: "My bride, Michelle, will be coming to live with me in the funeral home. Not everyone would be able to do that."

"I'm always on call and she is used to that with her job and the main thing is that we both provide a very caring service -- she reassures new and pregnant mothers and helps them give birth and the issues I deal are also very delicate.

"The people that I deal with, I see day in and day out, I look after their funeral arrangements and their families immediately after they're gone."

Blushing bride Michelle, 30, met her future husband 12-years ago. Although the couple were sweethearts for a short while, their relationship soon fizzled out.

They met up again seven years later when Michelle's grandfather died. Although their reunion was not on a happy note Neal was determined to lift Michelle's spirit.

"I wasn't going to let her get away again," Neal said. "I took her to a hilltop in Yorkshire and got down on one knee -- when she said yes there were lots of tears."

On Saturday Neal organised a surprise wedding carriage, pulled by the horses used for the hearse, to take his new wife from the Liverpool Road church on her honey-morgue.

Neal added: "You could say that she's hatches and I'm dispatches -- so now we are hatches and dispatches matches."